Videre: Drawing and Evolutionary Architectures
by Paul Cureton
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Analyzing the works of the seascape architect Wolf Hilbertz (1938 -2007), coral scientist Dr Thomas Goreau, architect... more
Analyzing the works of the seascape architect Wolf Hilbertz (1938 -2007), coral scientist Dr Thomas Goreau, architect Newton Fallis and collective, the paper considers the development of ‘self organizing’ natural building materials developing a mode of working - Cybertecture (Cybernetics & architecture) (Hilbertz 1970). This investigation focuses particularly on that of Biorock® the mineral accretion technology. This process creates artificial coral reefs which are stronger and more resilient to degrading factors found on natural reefs. The technology exemplifies an evolutionary environmental system, a coral which is more reliant, tradable, multiplies in growth three to five times faster than normal, protects coastline, and grows fish populations through its constantly evolving habitat (Hilbertz, Goreau 1970, 1992, 2008). Importantly the technology has wide implications for restoring, designing and managing fragile and threatened coral ecosystems thus creating an emerging field of Seascape Architecture (Goreau, Hilbertz 2005).
Through the application of such technology, an accreted city of coral is envisioned - Autopia Ampere. The early stage of the project involved large scale hand drawings of possible outcomes and issues in construction and production (Fallis 2010). The drawings of Autopia can be considered as heuristic and also visionary in the testing of ideas - (Videre, Latin. to see). The author’s composite drawings present this vision as a method to understanding the project as a form of ‘dialogic drawing’ (Dee 2004). From this basis there is a consideration of the role of hand drawing, its decline and its relation to other visualization techniques-arguing the case for the maintenance of this particular ‘visionary’ species (a morphological type) of drawing in architectural practice (Evans 1996, 2000). This is a type of drawing which arguably can ‘influence’ and ‘work out’ to provide or image heuristically charged solutions, spaces and structures to our changing climate.
Russo, M., 2007. Rilievo di forme complesse attraverso Reverse Modeling integrato
Tesi di Dottorato (PhD Thesis) XIX Ciclo in Disegno e Metodi di Sviluppo Prodotto, Biblioteca Nazionale, Roma
This PhD thesis deals with tridimensional survey methods application for acquiring physical Industrial Design... more This PhD thesis deals with tridimensional survey methods application for acquiring physical Industrial Design products. 3D acquisition techniques are already applied in industrial design production but their role in every single process is not yet clearly identified. Besides this the complex objects shape highlight the limitations about the use of a single instrument, which can’t supply with good results for all industrial typology products. These factors are critically framed in industrial develop process, outlining the level definition of object complexity for the best selection of survey method for every situation. The actual limits of 3D acquisition systems are so identified and compared to integrated systems applied in fields different from Industrial Design. 3D acquisition and registration process knowledge is a basic step to pro-ceed in sensor fusion techniques. For this reason, resolution, precision and accuracy factors are analyzed stand alone and in comparison with characterization process of active and passive systems. Moreover the critical role of alignment phase inside the reverse modeling process is highlighted, defining critical parameters that influence alignment process and quality of final result. At the end integrated approaches are experi-mented on complex industrial products, proposing for every case study the best survey solution, that optimize the quality of the final model and the time spent in 3D modeling, gaining in alignment and quality control of great amount of data of object with complex shape or huge dimension. The relevant final results concern with the definition of an optimal solutions system for sensor fusion application, which improves 3D sensor per-formances and optimizes 3D modeling construction. Moreover these results enlarge the use of 3D sensor in Industrial Design applications, overcoming the problems due to mono-instrument methods.